This is not a small matter. Prior to this
event, the Obama administration had claimed they had not denied security
requests from the embassy in Benghazi. The CIA made it clear that they
didn’t deny any security requests, but their wording left it open to interpretation that someone else higher up in the chain of authority had.
Leon Panetta said they could not send in any military without
sufficient information, further substantiating the claim that request
were denied.

With this seemingly pedestrian interview, Obama could not answer
whether he or anyone else in his administration had denied security
requests while Americans were under attack from terrorists.